That would be fine if we weren’t joining games that showed 7 people currently in that specific game only to join and everyone has already left, exit that game, join another and the same thing has happened all while having to wait for some stupid count down to finish over and over and over. Takes more time waiting to find a game than actually playing. It’s not a good set up at all. They should activate it until they find an alternative to these server issues and get rid of the countdown.
This is really needed on low pop HC servers where getting /p8 is nearly impossible. The game design assumes a large active pop at all times for HRs to drop.
This would be a great online feature because no need for ninja.
Do it
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Actually pc controller looting keeps me from playing with others. I use keyboard and mouse and since a lot use controller (and no I don’t need to switch), then I am guaranteed no loot unless I am off farming on my own which imo defeats the whole purpose then of playing with others as I like playing with others in the same area killing stuff.
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I agree. Please add players /8 for. Online play.
Have you ever logged in with a level 95 hardcore character at 1am, just to see only 1 game on battle net, with one player In it?
Do you have any idea how easy and boring it is playing in a 1 or 2 player game with a 90+ character in hardcore mode?
Please blizzard, add players 8 command in online Play
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Honestly what a bulls***t argument. Why should the game “encourage” me to play with more or less people? If you like playing with 6 randoms or you simply have many friends playind d2r then fine, go on, but why should I suffer because I don’t have as many friends playing D2 and I don’t enjoy playing with randoms? Oh no, he want’s to play only with his girlfriend and not get punished with worse loot unless he joins some random 6 player game to play in separate areas from them and just have more lags; what a brilliant logic.
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The d2jsp people are the problem. They are the ones worried about loot rarity because it impacts the very real money they make.
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People who argue that playerX online would ruin online play:
“It would ruin the multiplayer aspect of the game where people join the same game to go run separate areas of the game and never see each other and we can’t have this due to the high level of comradery this creates.”
-Hopefully my sarcasm is shining through here
Honestly it’s akin to youth today that want to go hang out with their friends by staring at their phones and interacting “online.” There’s absolutely no “real” interaction happening in either of these cases.
Now I would be all for keeping the xp scaling separate from playerX to encourage people to seek each other out when they want to XP, but NO ONE wants to MF for items with 7 other people as competition, NO ONE!!!
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Especially now that the nostalgia has worn off there are absolutely NO games available to 8 player MF in, and if there are I pretty much have to hijack someone elses game for my own purposes. Good luck finding one that runs consistently I can join over and over again continuously throughout a play session.
Same we really need them to fix this
They should at least do this when ladder comes out for NON-LADDER since the playerbase will be split between ladder and non-ladder. I do the same thing join baal games or w/e to solo stuff. Seems illogical to not allow people to do /players8 after ladder takes most the players.
I was against this at first, but playing again and seeing how most people nowadays just do their own zones anyways, they might as well just implement /p8 online.
So, +1 bring P8 online.
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+1 this would be so damn nice. The purists use this all the time on singleplayer so they better not be crying about it lol
Ok so ive read most posts and i have to say to those people that say: “Find friends and play together” <—Have you played D2 recently? Like at all? First of all finding 4 or more people and make them be online at the same hours is nearly impossible. Secondly most games you will see after 2-3 weeks after a reset is just rune-trade games, most of them are “offer or need some sort of HR”. There are almost no chaosruns or baalruns, most people MF solo, the only players able to do full 8man games are the bots who make it in password games…
Players 2-8 command would not hurt the game at all at this point, there is absolutley no reason (unfortunatley) to play together in D2 and have people steal the loot that drops. Sure maybe if they increased the dropchance of most runes/uniques it would be a different story. But since all of these items are soooo rare, well lets just say im pretty sure you would not want 7 other ninjalooters in your party.
Also unless they do something radical with melees (I pray for patch 2.4 but im skeptic) everyone will still play a sorc untill they get enigma, and that is usually when they make some other MF char like a hammerdin or poison necro. My point is melees ingame are crap right now, sure there is the occasional pitzerker or dual/dream pally here and there but lets all remember, those chars only work with optimal gear like grief and other stuff, and good luck getting those runes just by playing “with friends” for 2 hours each day (I will assume it is hard to keep 5 or more people online at the same time for any longer period of time…)
And since the ladder reset will be only 4 months now, im pretty sure increasing the droprate of “most” items and runes wouldnt hurt the game one bit. Other “projects” wich we all know have 3 months or so, do have the player8 command or they made the loot similiar to players5 when you are solo. So playing on battlenet with players1 and with the old loot chance? Gratz…
I’m with the implementing it for online people. There is ABSOLUTELY no reason to not have this as a feature for non-ladder characters. It will allow solo players and smaller parties to up the difficulty and challenge, and sometimes there just aren’t any co-op games running for the content you are trying to play.
Even more so, since now TCP/IP and LAN are not playmode options
you could always just play d2 lod. they still support tcp/ip, on the way out please pick up your cd player…
Fast forward 6 months and people are mainly playing solo anyway.
Almost no lobbies to join…
This would have made the game last a lot longer just saying.
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It would have just killed multiplayer right from the start.
People have been running PW protected games since start, because nobody wants the leechers whining in topics like these in their games.
Have you seen the public baalruns in the early few weeks? Nobody would tele or walk to the throne or help clear it. Everybody just waiting in town till they can enter a safe tp and leech and maybe grab some loot while others do the work.
You won’t see any good public runs anymore, since the D2R community has gained lots of leechers, whiners and lazy folks.
how about /p4? 
lets compromise.
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Nah. But it would kill ladder race right from the start.
That makes no sense, all arguments for and against /p8 are also valid for /p4.
But as soon as ladder arives, non-ladder could get /p8, theres no sane reason against it.
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Or worse yet, some who want the multiplayer bonus are killing act bosses in battlenet quest games.
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